Struggles. We all have them. Some struggles are the smaller day-to-day kind, and some are life-dominating. Sometimes we feel the struggles are inescapable. We feel trapped. In Trapped: Getting Free From People, Patterns, and Problems Andy Farmer explores these seemingly inescapable struggles. Farmer wants to show how the gospel is sufficient to free us from our traps to a life of freedom in Christ.
The book is divided into two parts: the framework and the application. The first four chapters lay out the problem of traps and the help and hope Christ offers for them. The second half of the book takes the basic framework of the first half and applies it to specific traps. Farmer addresses how the truths of the gospel apply specifically to each of several traps in which people find themselves.
Farmer begins by giving us a tour of some ways we may find ourselves trapped. He uses stories to help us identify what being trapped might look like. Next, the book walks us through several traps: approval of others, laziness, eating disorders, pornography, and substance abuse. The author observes that while we all desire freedom, we often do not know how to achieve it, nor
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